CVE-2004-0784: Rob Flynn Gaim

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The smiley theme functionality in Gaim before 0.82 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the filename of the tar file that is dragged to the smiley selector.

Affected products

• Rob Flynn Gaim: version 0.10 only; version 0.10.3 only; version 0.50 only; version 0.51 only; version 0.52 only; version 0.53 only; …

Published 2004-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.